These clay conveyors dominate the landscape at Kings Dyke which is just outside Peterborough. Kings Dyke is about a mile from Whittlesey. There are still some brick works here but the sidings of wagons full of bricks are all gone. This trade has gone over to road transport.

The frozen chip factory and other ware houses are giving Kings Dyke another trade to this hamlet that once only had London brick works. All the houses here were made for its workers.

They still make bricks here, but there are less brick yards than years ago, when both sides of the railway here had rail sidings.

When travelling on a train though Kings Dyke look out for the brickyard kilm that is in one of the old deep pits. Don't forget the land around these parts is well below sea level and this pit is even lower

The railway line between Peterborough and March runs from Peterborough railway station and then across the River Nene past the NVR and under the ECML,  past the site of Peterborough East station.

 

Peterborough East was the main Great Eastern Railway Peterborough  station for this line. This station was closed and all services transferred to the Great Northern Peterborough North station, now called just plain Peterborough.

 

The railway line heads out of Peterborough to Kings Dyke were there are brick works. There is a signal box at Kings Dyke on the main Peterborough Whittlesea road. The first and only station is at Whittlesea which is still open. There is a signal box called Whittlesea here.

 

The railway line heads out across the fens to March. At Turves a small hamlet or village there is a signal box called Three Horse Shoes.

 

The railway station at March is still open and there is a Network Rail Infrastructure Yard on the site of the old Marshalling Yard at Whitemoor.